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The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies

Name: The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198952619
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Contributors:

Simone Murray

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Modern, Media Studies, Anthropology

Book Topic:

20th Century, Cultural & Social

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Release Date:

11/14/2025

ISBN 13:

9780198952619

Weight:

1.31 lbs

Size:

9.31 x 6.46 x 0.80 inches

Pages:

256

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More than any other academic discipline, literary studies is the creation of print culture. How then can it thrive in the digital era? Early 1990s predictions of the book's imminent demise presented a simplistic either/or choice between the legacy of moribund print and triumphalist digital technology. Yet we have grown to experience the two media as complexly interdependent and even complementary. Clearly, digital does not kill print. But literary studies in the digital era cannot simply resume business as usual. It is urgently necessary to reconsider the discipline's founding assumptions in light of digital technology.

The digital era prompts a rethinking of literary studies' object of study, as well as its methods, theories, audiences and pedagogical practices. What counts as literature necessarily shifts in an age of proliferating born-digital texts and do-it-yourself (DIY) online publication. Where should literary studies sit institutionally, and how might it graft contextually-oriented social sciences methods onto its traditionally humanistic mode of textual analysis? Why should literary study continue to marginalize emotional responses to texts when online communities bond via readerly affect? Who is the audience for literary criticism in an age where expertise is routinely challenged yet communication with global book-loving publics has never been technologically easier? Finally, how can we utilize digital tools to rejuvenate literary studies pedagogy and help English staff better connect with millennial-age students?

Literary studies has been convulsed for decades by debates over electronic literature and, more recently, digitally-aided 'distant reading'. But these discussions still mostly confine themselves to demarcating our proper object of study. We need to think more expansively about digital technology's impact on the underpinning tenets of the discipline. Literary Media Studies is pitched at fellow literary scholars, book historians, media theorists, cultural sociologists, digital humanists and those working at the interface of these converging disciplines. It models constructive engagement with contemporary digital culture. Most importantly, it brings a burst of sorely needed optimism to the question of literary studies' digital future.

About the Author
Simone Murray, Associate Professor, Monash University, Melbourne

is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is author of four previous monographs: Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (Pluto Press, 2004) which was awarded the 2005 DeLong Book Prize by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing; The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (Routledge US, 2012); The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018); and Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media (Routledge UK, 2021).

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